482 Scientific Intelligence. 



Nos. 81, 83. Geology and Mineral Eesources. No. 81. The 

 Yalgoo Goldfield, Part I, the Warriedar goldmining centre, by 

 F. R. Feldtmann. Pp. 40, with 3 plates and 5 figures. No. 83. 

 The Northwest, Central and Eastern Divisions (E. Long. 119° 

 and 122°, S. Lat. 22°and 28°), by H. W. B. Talbot; petrology 

 by R. A. Farquharson. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence, 



1. Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. 

 — At the recent meeting of the National Academy (see p. 386) 

 the following gentlemen were elected to membership : Edward 

 W. Berry, Johns Hopkins University ; George K. Burgess, U. S. 

 Bureau of Standards; Rufus Cole, Rockefeller Hospital, New 

 York; Luther P. Eisenhart, Princeton University; Herbert 

 Hoover, Secretary of Commerce ; George A. Hulett, Princeton 

 University ; Charles A. Kof oid, University of California ; George 

 P. Merrill, U. S. National Museum; Carl E. Seashore, State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa; Charles R. Stockard, Cornell Medical School; 

 Ambrose Swasey, Cleveland, Ohio ; William H. Wright, Lick 

 Observatory. 



Further, Dr. Albert Einstein, of the University of Berlin, was 

 elected foreign associate. 



The presentation of medals was as follows : The J. Lawrence 

 Smith Medal for important contributions to knowledge concern- 

 ing meteorites to Dr. George P. Merrill, of the U. S. National 

 Museum. Also the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal was awarded 

 with an honorarium to Dr. 0. Abel of Vienna, for his book, 

 "Methoden der parlaobiclogischen Forshung; 



Delegates were appointed to a number of University and 

 Scientific meetings at home and abroad ; notable among these was 

 the recent (May 14-17) seventh centenary of Padua, and the 

 one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Academic Royale 

 des Sciences de Belgique at Brussels, May 24. 



The Academy voted to accept the invitation of the members in 

 New York City to hold its Autumn meeting there, the details to 

 be arranged by the President and Home Secretary in conjunc- 

 tion with the Local Committee. 



2. Considerations sur I'Etre vivant: II, L'Individu, la Sex- 

 uality la Parthenogenese et la Mort, an 'point de vue orthobion- 

 tique; pp. 193. 2. Note preliminaire sur VOrthobionte des 

 Characees; pp. 18; par Charles Janet. Beauvais, 1921 

 (Dumontier et Hague). — In an earlier paper the author has pos- 

 tulated his theory of the orthobionte as a series of reproductive 

 cell aggregates (merisms) which lead from the fertilized egg, or 

 zygote, of one generation to the same stage in the subsequent gen- 



